Google Calendars are a great tool for any ministry. Multiple people can have access to updating them, and they can be easily installed onto your blog so that everyone who visits your site can be kept up to date on your ministry’s schedule of events. Managing the calendar is extremely easy since you only have to update it in one place. Every time you make a change to the calendar in Google, your blog is automatically updated.
Here’s a quick tutorial to get you started. This tutorial assumes you’ve got a self-hosted WordPress blog and are using version 2.9.
1. Go to www.google.com/calendar
2. Click on the Create an account button, or if you already have a Google Account, enter your email and password to login.
3. Enter all of the required information and agree to the terms and conditions
4. Once completed, you should see your new calendar
5. Click on the arrow by My Calendars, and select Calendar Settings
6. Select Customize the color, size, and other options from the Embed This Calendar section.
7. Use the options menu to customize how your calendar will appear on your blog. Make sure you adjust the width and height of the calendar so that it fits in the space where you’re embedding it. Also, under Calendars to Display, make sure your calendar is checked.
8. Click on the Update HTML button
9. Copy all of the code in the Copy and Paste the HTML… box. This is the embed code you’ll use to add your calendar to your blog.
10. Next, install the embed code you copied in step 9 into your blog, just as you would for any other widget. Here’s a video to show you how to install a widget into a WordPress blog using WordPress version 2.9.
Have any ideas for integrating Google and widgets into your blog? Let us know.
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